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Akhtar, Ayad American Dervish A young Pakistani boy, whose parents left the fundamentalists behind when they came to America, finds transformation and a path to happiness through a family friend, Mina, who shows him the beauty and power of the Quran. 2012 Adult Fiction Book |
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Allen, Sarah Addison. The Girl Who Chased the Moon Moving in with the grandfather she never knew after the death of her mother, 17-year-old Emily witnesses bizarre supernatural activities in her new North Carolina community while befriending its remarkable residents. 2010 Adult Fiction Book |
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Benjamin, Melanie Alice I Have Been Now in her twilight years, Alice Liddell looks back on a remarkable life. From a pampered childhood in Oxford to difficult years as a widowed mother, Alice examines how she became who she is--and how she became immortalized as Alice in Wonderland. 2009 Adult Fiction Book |
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Brashares, Ann. My Name is Memory Sharing multiple lifetimes with the reincarnations of Sophia, Daniel, a soul with a rare ability to remember his past lives, arrives in the present frustrated that their time together has always been cut short and hopeful that Sophia's burgeoning memories can help them overcome past-life challenges. 2010 Adult Fiction Book |
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Brockmeier, Kevin. The Illumination A journal of private love notes written by a husband to his wife in the wake of a fatal car accident passes through the hands of a hospital patient and five other suffering people whose respective experiences connect them to each other in poignant and complex ways. 2011 Adult Fiction Book |
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Cosse´, Laurence A Novel Bookstore A mysterious death, unusual car accident, and anonymous threats have one thing in common -- the victims are all members of the Good Novel bookstore's secret selection committee. Set in Paris, this tale combines mystery, romance, and French theology and literature. 2010 Adult Fiction Book |
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Enright, Anne, 1962- The Forgotten Waltz During a snowstorm, Gina Moynihan reminisces the string of events that brought her the love of her life, Sean Vallely, and recalls their affair. 2011 Adult Fiction Book |
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Erdrich, Louise. Love Medicine The lives and destinies of two Native American families--the Kashpaws and the Lamartines--intertwine on and around a North Dakota Indian reservation from 1934 to 1984, in a tale of survival, tenacity, tradition, injustice, and love. Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award. 2009 Adult Fiction Book ERDRICH |
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Esquivel, Laura, 1950- Malinche Recounts the story of the love affair between the conquistador Herna´n Corte´s and Malinalli, his Indian interpreter during the conquest of the Aztec empire, describing her role as a mediator between two very different languages and cultures. 2006 Adult Fiction Book |
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Feldman, Ellen, 1941- Next to Love Follows the stories of three young couples whose lives are irrevocably changed in the years following World War II, a period during which they struggle with difficult losses and witness profound transformations in American culture. 2011 Adult Fiction Book |
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Garcia Marquez, Gabriel Love in the Time of Cholera Set on the Caribbean coast of South America, this love story brings together Fermina Daza, her distinguished husband, and a man who has secretly loved her for more than fifty years. 1988 Adult Fiction Book GARCIA |
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Goldman, Francisco. Say Her Name In a novel based on the author's real-life tragedy, Goldman, consumed with grief and guilt over the accidental death of his wife just before their second anniversary, obsessively collects every memory of her, especially her writings, with the hope of keeping her alive in his mind. 2011 Adult Fiction Book |
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Goodman, Allegra. The Cookbook Collector While executive Emily questions her choices about her career and a long-distance relationship with a successful man, her environmental activist sister, Jessamine, struggles with her own doubts about her beliefs and love affair. 2010 Adult Fiction Book |
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Goodwin, Daisy. The American Heiress Presents the story of vivacious Cora Cash, whose early twentieth-century marriage to England's most eligible duke is overshadowed by his secretive nature and the traps and betrayals of London's social scene. 2011 Adult Fiction Book |
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Hellenga, Robert, 1941- Philosophy Made Simple Feeling restless after the death of his wife, Rudy Harrington, a father of three grown daughters, leaves his Chicago home to start his life over at an avocado grove in Texas, where he takes up philosophy, presides over his daughter's Hindu wedding, and falls for his son-in-law's mother. 2006 Adult Fiction Book |
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Hodgkinson, Amanda 22 Britannia Road In this tale of a Polish family desperately trying to put itself back together after WWII, Silvana and Janusz travel to England where they attempt to put the past behind them. But the secrets they carry pull at the threads of their fragile peace. 2011 Adult Fiction Book |
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Hoffman, Alice. The Story Sisters Elv, Claire, and Meg are the Story Sisters, and each has a fate she must meet alone. One on a country road, one in the streets of Paris, and one in the corridors of her own imagination. At once a coming-of-age tale, a family saga, and a love story of erotic longing. 2009 Adult Fiction Book |
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Hollinghurst, Alan. The Stranger's Child From the Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Line of Beauty: a magnificent, century-spanning saga about a love triangle that spawns a myth, and a family mystery, across generations. 2011 Adult Fiction Book |
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Kostova, Elizabeth. The Swan Thieves His ordered life thrown into disarray when he begins treating an unstable genius artist who has recently attacked a canvas at the National Gallery of Art, psychiatrist and art hobbyist Andrew Marlow struggles to understand the secret that torments the artist. Kostova's masterful new novel travels from American cities to the coast of Normandy, from the late 19th century to the late 20th, from young love to last love. 2010 Adult Fiction Book KOSTOVA |
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Krauss, Nicole The History of Love Sixty years after a book's publication, its author remembers his lost love and missing son, while a teenage girl, named for one of the book's characters, seeks her namesake, as well as a cure for her widowed mother's loneliness. 2005 Adult Fiction Book KRAUSS |
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